[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails
Hi,
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
Does dovecot-auth have permissions to /var/run/dovecot/login during boot time?
Skye
Word on the street is Bavo De Ridder said:
Hi,
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
Hi,
What exactly do you mean with this?
These are the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot/login directory:
drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 72 Mar 23 00:20 login
B.
On Friday 19 March 2004 20:05, Skye Poier wrote:
Does dovecot-auth have permissions to /var/run/dovecot/login during boot time?
Skye
Word on the street is Bavo De Ridder said:
Hi,
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
OK, I guess those perms are probably right. Is /var mounted rw during your "run level 3" ? I know nothing about SUSE.
Skye
Hi,
What exactly do you mean with this? These are the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot/login directory: drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 72 Mar 23 00:20 login
B.
On Friday 19 March 2004 20:05, Skye Poier wrote:
Does dovecot-auth have permissions to /var/run/dovecot/login during boot time?
Skye
Word on the street is Bavo De Ridder said:
Hi,
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
I don't even have a seperate /var partition. Just / and swap.
Attached you can find an strace output of /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth during boot.
During boot, the last service to start is dovecot (I did this on purpose to make sure everything is up and running before attempting to start dovecot in case dovecot had some dependencies), this fails with the error message (in /var/log/mail.err)
"dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down"
If, after boot, I just login as root and type:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
Dovecot starts fine.
As you can see from the strace, the dovecot-auth seems to have some trouble reading the socket.
B.
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 18:43, Skye Poier wrote:
OK, I guess those perms are probably right. Is /var mounted rw during your "run level 3" ? I know nothing about SUSE.
Skye
Hi,
What exactly do you mean with this? These are the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot/login directory: drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 72 Mar 23 00:20 login
B.
On Friday 19 March 2004 20:05, Skye Poier wrote:
Does dovecot-auth have permissions to /var/run/dovecot/login during boot time?
Skye
Word on the street is Bavo De Ridder said:
Hi,
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
\0\0\0\205\0\0\0\261\0\0\0\230\0\0\0O\0\0\0\257\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\207\0\0\0\231\0\0\0=\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\201\0\0\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=56275, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 46160, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40068000 old_mmap(0x40073000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0xb000) = 0x40073000 close(5) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20/\0\0004\0\0\0\30.\1\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\3\0(\0\31\0\26\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\264$\1\0\264$\1\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\300$\1\0\3004\1\0\3004\1\0\220\6\0\0\354\6\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\304\'\1\0\3047\1\0\3047\1\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\305\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\313\0\0\0\220\0\0\0\261\0\0\0\0\0\0\0e\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\252\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\214\0\0\0\257\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\323\0\0\0q\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\203\0\0\0Q\0\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=89417, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 80812, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40074000 old_mmap(0x40087000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x12000) = 0x40087000 close(5) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0*\0\0004\0\0\0(\374\0\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\6\0(\0\34\0\31\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0l\344\0\0l\344\0\0l\344\0\0\23\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\177\344\0\0\177\344\0\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\360\0\0\0\360\0\0\0\360\0\0\210\10\0\0\250/\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\344\365\0\0\344\365\0\0\344\365\0\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=74577, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 73640, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40088000 old_mmap(0x40097000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0xf000) = 0x40097000 old_mmap(0x40098000, 8104, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40098000 close(5) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\204\0\0004\0\0\0h\371\2\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\3\0(\0\33\0\30\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0A\315\2\0A\315\2\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\320\2\0\0\320\2\0\0\320\2\0\244#\0\0\320*\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0<\357\2\0<\357\2\0<\357\2\0\340\0\0\0\340\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\t\2\0\0005\2\0\0\34\2\0\0v\0\0\0\0\0\0\0:\0\0\0r\1\0\0\23\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0.\1\0\0\35\2\0\0\210\1\0\0\0\0\0\0009\1\0\0\t\2\0\0\322\1\0\0\266\1\0\0\33\1\0\0\253\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\253"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=223898, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 195280, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x4009a000 old_mmap(0x400c7000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x2d000) = 0x400c7000 close(5) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\275\2\0004\0\0\0000\31\17\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\4\0(\0\35\0\32\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\354\304\r\0\354\304\r\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\320\r\0\0\320\r\0\0\320\r\0\314\21\1\0\330L\1\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\370\333\16\0\370\333\16\0\370\333\16\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0P\345td\320\304\r\0\320\304\r\0\320\304\r\0\34\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\5\10\0\0\332\n\0\0\0\0\0\0\236\n\0\0\0\0\0\0002\7\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0<\7\0\0\205\n"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=1143807, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400ca000 old_mmap(NULL, 990424, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x400cb000 old_mmap(0x401a8000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0xdd000) = 0x401a8000 old_mmap(0x401ba000, 11480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401ba000 close(5) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libpq.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0F\0\0004\0\0\0(N\1\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\3\0(\0\31\0\26\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0T6\1\0T6\1\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\0@\1\0\0@\1\0\0@\1\0D\v\0\0\300\v\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\24G\1\0\24G\1\0\24G\1\0\360\0\0\0\360\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\7\1\0\0/\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0k\0\0\0-\1\0\0\201\0\0\0\317\0\0\0\274\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\221\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\265\0\0\0\0\0\0\0$\1\0\0\351\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\373\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\1\0\0\32\1\0\0\333\0\0\0\302"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=99920, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 84928, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x401bd000
old_mmap(0x401d1000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x14000) = 0x401d1000
close(5) = 0
open("/lib/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\n\0\0004\0\0\0\360\225\0\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\6\0(\0\34\0\31\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0,\200\0\0,\200\0\0,\200\0\0\23\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0?\200\0\0?\200\0\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0@\200\0\0@\220\0\0@\220\0\0(\23\0\0\\204\2\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\10\222\0\0\10\242\0\0\10\242\0\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0 \0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=43574, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 201884, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x401d2000
old_mmap(0x401db000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x8000) = 0x401db000
old_mmap(0x401dd000, 156828, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401dd000
close(5) = 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\34\0\0004\0\0\0H$\0\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\6\0(\0\34\0\31\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\242\36\0\0\242\36\0\0\242\36\0\0\23\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\265\36\0\0\265\36\0\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\0 \0\0\0 \0\0\0 \0\0\230\1\0\0\270\1\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\f \0\0\f \0\0\f \0\0\340\0\0\0\340\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0 \0\0\0 \0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13625, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 8632, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40204000
old_mmap(0x40206000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x2000) = 0x40206000
close(5) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0^\1\0004\0\0\0,\255\23\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\7\0(\0009\0006\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\340\0\0\0\340\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\310\333\22\0\310\333\22\0\310\333\22\0\23\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0X\341\22\0X\341\22\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\341\22\0\361\22\0`\361\22\0\340B\0\0$m\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0t \23\0t0\23\0t0\23\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\24\1\0\0\24\1\0\0\24\1\0\0 \0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1470060, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1269380, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40207000
old_mmap(0x40336000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x12e000) = 0x40336000
old_mmap(0x4033b000, 7812, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4033b000
close(5) = 0
open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(5, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20<\0\0004\0\0\0\364#\1\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0\6\0(\0\34\0\31\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0g\24\1\0g\24\1\0g\24\1\0\23\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0z\24\1\0z\24\1\0\5\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\1\0\0\0\200\24\1\0\200$\1\0\200$\1\0H\t\0\0\240*\0\0\6\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\2\0\0\0\304\31\1\0\304)\1\0\304)\1\0\330\0\0\0\330\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0\364\0\0\0 \0\0\0 \0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=89022, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 85792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x4033d000
old_mmap(0x4034f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 5, 0x11000) = 0x4034f000
old_mmap(0x40350000, 7968, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40350000
close(5) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40352000
munmap(0x40016000, 86746) = 0
fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0
getsockname(4, 0xbffffbc0, [28]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket)
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
On 2004-03-18 10:44:52 +0100, Bavo De Ridder wrote:
I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository.
The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.
did you read the mail SuSEconfig sends to your root user? or read did you read /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot/README.SuSE :) normally it is an SSL issue. but weird ssl is disabled on your box o.O
hmm .. do you get an error if you run "/usr/sbin/dovecot" directly as root?
darix (package maintainer)
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 19:02, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
hmm .. do you get an error if you run "/usr/sbin/dovecot" directly as root?
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # /usr/sbin/dovecot
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # ps aux
...
root 3020 0.0 0.0 2732 944 ? S 20:41
0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
root 3021 0.0 0.0 3572 1032 ? S 20:41 0:00 dovecot-auth
dovecot 3022 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
dovecot 3023 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
dovecot 3024 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
So that seems to work. Like I mentioned, it only fails at boot time. If I, after boot, start the service by hand by executing /etc/init.d/dovecot start, it starts up without errors and works.
I assume the var partition is mounted read/write at the time dovecot boots, since dovecot boots after sysload, httpd, ...
B.
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Skye Poier